Sentence examples for except for unusual from inspiring English sources

The homes are fairly ordinary, except for unusual dark colonettes set into many window enframements, an elaborate detail for what otherwise was mass production architecture.

Except for unusual cases like Cleophus Prince Jr., a black man who stabbed six white women to death in San Diego in the early 1990's, black serial killers, like white ones, seldom kill outside their race.

"The assumption should be that the law requiring specific training for superintendents should be followed except for unusual cases, that rare candidate who does not fulfill all the detailed requirements, but yet who obviously is qualified for the job," said Joseph P. Viteritti, a public policy professor at Hunter College.

In our experience, and aside from a few unusual distant haplotypes, cost values exceeding 2.00 were generally correlated with error or misalignment, except for unusual distant haplotypes.

Except for an unusual East Coast blizzard in 1996, this was the biggest drop in total hours worked since 1982.

Except for the unusual eruptive activities of Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Ontake emitted very high H2S flux for the plume probably influenced by hydrothermal system.

The observed prices in general remained within this area, except for the unusual rise after the cattle stock liquidation in previous years, which was exacerbated by a severe flood in the year 2007 and drought in 2009.

Except for 1 sample, no molecular evidence for unusual HIV- or SIV-like strains in this sampling was found.

Unusual times call for unusual measures.

Octopuses make for unusual lovers.

Unusual circumstances call for unusual methods.